We’ll end this week with a few beautiful photographs of a friend of mine, Dale Schreiner, who has spent a lot of time photographing the quintessential trade that keeps all of our cars going: the car mechanic. In this particular case his friend Brent. I really think of them as car doctors – they need to do the diagnostics of what is wrong; they need to find appropriate solutions that include some kinds of surgery and handiness with the right tools. It is hard physical labor in addition to solving tricky problems with occasional improvisation. They need to deal with the insurance folks and anxious owners that compare to patients’ parents. And they develop a relationship to the “patient” – if only pretending to faint when you bring in your 20 year-old van for the umpteenth time…..

Here is a clip of Tati’s Traffic – a movie that still brings tears of laughter to me after all these years. I guess I am easily amused – inside and outside of the car.  http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2dfuqi_trafic-1971-jacques-tati-ending_shortfilms

And that ends our musings on automobiles.